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To blunt the Marxist revolutionaries in his centralized German state,Bismarck adopted many of their social welfare programs; FDR would do thesame as he co-opted the Socialist and Communist Party USA platforms byincorporating much of their platforms into his own Democratic platformsof 1936, 1940 and 1944. To win votes and stay in power at all costs,Democratic leadership had shed the old party mantle of conservatism andstrict interpretation of the Constitution. By 1948, Southern Democratshad had enough of the Marxist tide overwhelming their party and formedtheir own conservative Democratic party – they would not compromisetheir conservative principles as others did.

Bernhard Thuersam

The Conservative Descent into the Welfare State:

“The idea of the welfare state is irrevocably bound up with the post-warBritish Labour government, though the ideas and the practice of welfaredid not originate in Britain or in the European socialist movement. Themost important path-breakers were the Germans, who introduced a healthinsurance scheme in 1883 and a general pension scheme for old age andinvalidity in 1889. The French instituted similar pension plans in1910. In 1911 the British Liberal government initiated a nationalinsurance system, old-age pensions…and health and compulsoryunemployment insurance systems....The Swedes, in 1913 introduced thefirst compulsory and universal pension system in the world….”

The welfare state can also be seen as a response to the needs ofadvanced capitalism and particularly to the fact that the privatesector, on its own, is unable to ensure the reproduction of all theconditions of production, including the following: an ideologicallynon-hostile labour force able and willing to work without having toprovide for its own health care and future pension needs out of wages;an efficient transport and educational infrastructure; and the provisionof essential supplies, such as gas and electricity, at reasonably lowcosts.

Thus the welfare state, while it improves the standard of life to theworkforce, simultaneously stabilizes the capitalist system from aneconomic, social and political point of view. Herein lies theinescapable dilemma which has faced the socialist movement ever sinceits origins: does the success obtained in forcing capitalism to reformitself and improve the conditions of the population also stabilize andlegitimize capitalism itself? Do short-term achievements undermine thegrounds for the eventual overthrow of the [capitalist] system?

It is certain that a British Conservative government would haveintroduced some welfare measures between 1945 and 1950. The BritishConservatives had committed themselves to social reforms ever since theSecond World War, when….Churchill told the nation (21 March 1943) that,after the war, unemployment would be abolished, state ownership shouldbe extended, compulsory national insurance introduced “for all purposesfrom the cradle to the grave”, and that “there was no finerinvestment…than putting milk into babies.”

This is not to say that Churchill and the Conservatives had becomesupporters of the welfare state. They had not. They had understood thatthe mood of the country was shifting, and moved tentatively and withoutzeal towards the creation of a “New Jerusalem.”

(One Hundred Years of Socialism, The West European Left in the TwentiethCentury, Donald Sassoon, New Press, 1996, pp. 137-139)

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The last leg of our current problems began on 8/15/71, when the dollarhad been so undervalued that gold backing was removed and the dollar,the world's reserve currency, was left to float as just another fiatcurrency. The dollar stability created by gold was gone and it was onlya matter of time before it lost 98% of its value, which is what hashappened over the past 41 years.

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